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crossing

A crossing is an intersection where roads or tracks cross. The rail crossing is notoriously dangerous for drivers. A crossing is a place where you can safely cross a road, river, or railroad tracks. China recently opened the world's longest sea crossing, the .

crossing

traveling across a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean) a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect (= ford) a shallow area in a stream that can be forded a junction where one street or road crosses another (= hybridization) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids

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Simple sentences

The accident happened at that crossing.
If it hadn't been for Lindbergh's luck and his knowledge of flying, he could never have succeeded in crossing the Atlantic.
Drivers must look out for children crossing the road.
The little boy held his mother's hand firmly when crossing the street.
If this organization is left as it is, it will soon go bankrupt; its recovery is as difficult as swapping horses while crossing a stream.
What happened at that crossing?
The flood prevented me from crossing the river.
My father warned me against crossing the road.
I saw him crossing the road.
I saw her crossing the street.
I saw a boy crossing the street.
You should be careful when crossing a big street.
Look to right and left in crossing the street.
When I was crossing the street, I saw an accident.
Avoid crossing this street when it is raining.
Turn right at the next crossing.
When everybody's crossing on a red, it's not so scary.

Movie subtitles

The soldiers of fortune were ordered to leave, and were kept under guard until crossing the border.
Why don't you whistle at the crossing?
I'll be seein' you at the river crossing.
You double-crossing hound.
Why, you dirty, double-crossing..
Crossing a river with a corpse.
Yeah 'Cause Crossing The Atlantic Was Gon' Be A Bitch If She Was In One Of Her Moods.
More spying and double-crossing?
The edge of the cloud crossing the moon.
Had a good crossing?
I don't know. We ran into trouble. and we lost most of our provisions crossing the river.
If he's double-crossing me.
You're either the biggest double crossing liar I've ever met, or.
Cedar Crossing?
Would you mind crossing the street when it's red?
I'll see you at the river crossing.
Why, I think I'd almost marry you to spite that double-crossing crook.
Double-crossing hound!
Why, you dirty, double-crossing.
Oh, there you are. Had a good crossing?
Only your tuppence, fiddler, for the crossing, and this ferry will be mine.
He was a vain, double-crossing heel.
Bert will be so pleased that we're crossing together.
She's the slickest two-timing, double-crossing.
You dirty, low-down, cheap, double-crossing snake.
That would've been double-crossing you.
Has he been crossing me up with you?
Crossing the Danube 19th - 20th of July 1877 The patrols cross.
Crossing the river Vid.
Washington crossing the Delaware.
Crossing the yard, at night, without a light.
He got lost on his way to Elk's Crossing.
Well, I'm hanging around Elk's Crossing for a little while in case you change your mind and get smart.
Elk's Crossing is a dull little town, Eddie.
Crossing the desert in a jalopy like this.
Now get this, you double-crossing chimpanzee.
Double-crossing swine.

News and current affairs

Iran has the most leverage inside Iraq, and Syria has become a vital crossing point for weapons and insurgents into the Iraqi battlefield.
This feedback has nothing to do with the debt-to-annual-GDP ratio crossing some threshold, unless the people who contribute to the feedback believe in the ratio.
In the immediate aftermath of the October War of 1973, the Arab world rejoiced because the myth of Israeli invincibility had been shattered by Egypt's crossing of the Suez Canal and the Syrian offensive that swept across the Golan Heights.
But in 1973, after crossing the Suez Canal, Egyptian infantrymen by the thousand stood their ground unflinchingly against advancing Israeli battle tanks.
On October 16, 1973, ten days after Egypt's army surprised the Israelis by crossing the Suez Canal, Sharon turned defeat into victory by leading his own troops across the canal through a narrow gap in the Egyptian front.
The Egyptian high command was convinced that Sharon's crossing was only an overnight raid by light forces.
Arab raiders were crossing Israel's unfenced borders to rob cattle and steal farm implements, sometimes attacking civilians.
In crossing borders, the sharp portfolio reallocations and the rush to safer assets are creating not only financial but also exchange-rate crises.
He argued not only that Western values are applicable across cultures, but that he owes his literary achievements to precisely that universality afforded by crossing Huntington's putative civilizational boundaries.
In one scene, two Mexican hit men ruthlessly slaughter a dozen innocent compatriots who could bear witness to their border crossing.
In reality, by purchasing large volumes of government bonds, the ECB was crossing the Rubicon; after all, it is explicitly prohibited from financing governments.
The next logical step is to extend safe avenues to the frontline region, thereby reducing the number of migrants who make the dangerous Mediterranean crossing.
Agreements to upgrade the Blace border-crossing between fYROM and Kosovo, and to build a new bridge over the Danube between Bulgaria and Romania have been made.
From the pro-consulate of Julius Caesar until 1945, there was most likely at least one army crossing or about to cross or thinking of crossing the Rhine in arms.
After ten years of a large-scale repression, the fire, far from going out, is spreading, crossing borders, setting Northern Caucasus ablaze and making combatants even more fierce.
Until recently, most migrants setting out for Italy made the crossing on small vessels.
Senior ministers in the United Kingdom and other northern European countries, relying on little more than armchair behavioral economics, argued that Mare Nostrum encouraged more migrants to attempt the dangerous sea crossing.
In just the first few months of 2015, more than 38,000 people have attempted to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa.
LONDON - In 2014, more than 190,000 people risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to Europe.
And yet Europe's current proposals on migration leave much to be desired. The continent needs to recall its past more sensitively, and be more generous to the desperate people crossing the Mediterranean.
Asylum-seekers provided with a clear status and promises of safety could be induced to wait in Turkey and other frontline countries, rather than risk a dangerous Mediterranean crossing.
European leaders cannot remain passive in the face of the dangerous populist tsunami now crossing the continent, and they know it.
Iran has always been keenly aware of the multiple risks involved in crossing that red line.
The continent needs to recall its past more sensitively, and be more generous to the desperate people crossing the Mediterranean.
Haitians should not be encouraged to seek a solution to their tragic plight simply by crossing the border, but Dominicans should not demonize Haiti as the source of all their problems.
NEW DELHI - Two celebrated heroes who, as president and army chief, helped end Sri Lanka's long and brutal civil war against the Tamil Tigers are now crossing political swords.
If the Obama administration does not succeed in stopping Iran by peaceful means from crossing the threshold to becoming a nuclear power, a hot confrontation is lurking.

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